What is Hot Mud?

Hot Mud(HAHT MUD) n. Wet, sticky earth formed, then made very warm in a kiln.

Hot Mud Studio(HAHT MUD STOO-dee-oh) n.

A place where artists form wet, sticky earth and make it very warm in a kiln.

A teaching pottery studio in Hastings-on-Hudson and then Dobbs Ferry, NY. Founded on the auspicious date of 9-9-99, by Susan Whelan, it was turned over to capable hands in 2004 and became Pottery-on-Hudson.

Currently a basement studio on Washington Avenue in Kingston, NY, where Susan Whelan forms beautiful things out of wet, sticky earth and makes them very, very hot in an electric kiln.